employee networks

How secure is your company’s network?
The rising frequency of employee network access is fast becoming one of the most prevalent and unmanaged risks to the protection of critical enterprise data. When coupled with increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, the possibility of a security breach of enterprise networks becomes more likely.
As one of the world’s leading location platforms in 2018, HERE shares insights and solutions to preventing identity fraud. Discover the latest facts and statistics. Learn more about the use-case of location verification when logging into your company’s network.
Download the infographic from HERE Technologies.

Cloud Connectivity and Security for Every Branch With each new branch and remote employee, your distributed networks become more complex, and your organization’s digital transformation continues moving full speed ahead. Traditional networking and security infrastructures often buckle under the pressure.
In this ebook, Guide to Cloud Connectivity and Security in Distributed Networks, we’ll share a better approach. Integrating connectivity and security, and moving them to the cloud, can help you achieve higher productivity, reduce cost, and ease compliance.
Specific topics include:
Ways to augment or replace expensive MPLS for more powerful connectivity
Types of security every internet-connected site needs for holistic protection
Advantages of an integrated solution over a patchwork of point products
Read our ebook for more on how to connect and protect across your distributed networks.

Things are not as they used to be in the enterprise. Today’s employees are mobile, they’re storing and accessing data in cloud apps, and are in disparate networks. While the present-day digital world has changed, the objective of data protection has not: you must still ensure the security of your critical data and intellectual property. However, the threat-centric security approach, with its static policies forces decisions about cyber activity with no insight into the broader context. The result is a disproportionate number of flagged activities, overwhelming security teams who have no way to understand the ones most worthy of investigation. Read Rethinking Data Security with a Risk-Adaptive Approach to learn how a human-centric, risk-adaptive approach can help your organization be more proactive in order to:
• Automate policy enforcement to deter data loss events
• Reduce the number of security alerts
• Cut down on incident investigation time

Cloud Connectivity and Security for Every Branch With each new branch and remote employee, your distributed networks become more complex, and your organization’s digital transformation continues moving full speed ahead. Traditional networking and security infrastructures often buckle under the pressure.
In this ebook, Guide to Cloud Connectivity and Security in Distributed Networks, we’ll share a better approach. Integrating connectivity and security, and moving them to the cloud, can help you achieve higher productivity, reduce cost, and ease compliance.
Specific topics include:
Ways to augment or replace expensive MPLS for more powerful connectivity
Types of security every internet-connected site needs for holistic protection
Advantages of an integrated solution over a patchwork of point products
Read our ebook for more on how to connect and protect across your distributed networks.

Does your company foster a strong team dynamic? More than ever, effective businesses rely on employees to work internally across departments, and externally with increasingly global networks of clients.
Thousands of learners were surveyed about the impact of
language training with Rosetta Stone® business solutions.Results showed investing in employee language proficiency delivers five key benefits:
Strengthens business operations
Stimulates employee engagement
Increases productivity
Drives company loyalty
Attracts globally-aware Millennials

If you’ve noticed more employees accessing the corporate network using their personally owned mobile devices, you’re not alone. Many employees are boosting their productivity by using their smartphones and tablets at work.
Gone are the days of corporate IT departments dictating the types of mobile devices that could access the network. Bring your own device (BYOD) policies, while increasing employee satisfaction and productivity, are straining corporate networks.
This white paper describes the limitations of legacy networks, especially for supporting BYOD. Understanding these limitations can pave the way for a successful BYOD management policy for campus and branch networks.

The cost of ineffective customer service visits isn't just in money: the greater cost is in customer satisfaction. When a mobile workforce employee doesn't arrive on time, is missing equipment, or doesn't resolve the issue on the first visit, it leads to customer dissatisfaction, lost business, and today, public complaints in the media and social networks. Every single service organization understands the crucial value of great customer service. Every single visit to a customer is critical. In this paper, we reveal the 3 steps to a great visit every time.

Do you know how your company is measuring up against the competition? It's imperative to uncover every distinction that sets your company apart. Your people, or talent, is a valuable asset you can use to impact success.

“We don’t have a BYOD programme.”
This statement, referencing mobile device usage in the workplace, is a refrain often heard in European organisations that are
tasked with securing the privacy of highly confidential data and personally identifiable information, and managing employee
authorisation and access to that data. However, businesses often believe that they aren’t actually subject to cyber-threats
from mobile devices because, simply, they don’t currently allow personal mobile devices to access their networks. Ultimately,
this posture puts data at risk because every company has a BYOD policy whether they like it or not.

The modern enterprise workforce poses new challenges for IT. Today’s employees work in more places, on more devices— personal or company-owned—and over more networks than ever, using a diverse array of datacenter applications, mobile apps, SaaS and cloud services. As they move among apps, networks and devices, IT needs to be able to control access and ensure data and application security without impeding productivity. That means enabling users to get to work quickly and easily in any scenario without having to deal with different ways of accessing each app. Traditional VPNs and point solutions add complexity for both users and IT, increase costs and fail to enable a holistic approach to business mobility. Over the years, many IT organizations have addressed these evolving requirements through point solutions and by case-by-case configuration of access methods. The resulting fragmented experience poses a key roadblock to productivity and increases user frustration. For IT, the lack of a

In the PC era, employees operated from within a well defined enterprise IT perimeter and passwords were sufficient to establish user trust. However, in today’s mobile-cloud environment, the enterprise perimeter has dissolved and business information is available to users on a variety of endpoints, apps, services, networks, locations. In this dynamic access environment, organizations need a different approach to security that is able to:
• Establish user trust using multiple factor authentication
• Correlate user trust with other factors such as endpoint, app, network, and more
• Apply adaptive, risk-based policies that match the user’s environment

Today’s workforce is increasingly nomadic. Employees use personal and company-owned devices – desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones with various operating systems – to access corporate resources over different networks from virtually anywhere. Roaming users and cloud-based applications have eroded the network perimeter where enterprises have traditionally focused their security controls.
SymantecTM provides a complete endpoint solution powered by the world’s largest civilian Global Intelligence Network (GIN) to help organizations secure their enterprise and mobile workforce across traditional and modern OS devices used over any network and from any location.
Read this white paper to find out more.

We’re living through a time where people,
organizations and societies not only rely but thrive
upon secure, simple and fast access to information.
From small businesses, startups, enterprises and
global conglomerates across all verticals; to local, state
and federal governments; to educational institutions
and nonprofits, we are continuously investing in
our employees, devices, applications, networks and
infrastructure that enable us to drive our collective
missions forward.
Ten years ago, business and technology leaders
catalyzed a cloud app revolution that has changed the
way organizations manage IT. However, through this
transformative shift, the core requirements of IT remain
the same. Technology leaders are responsible for
ensuring that 1) information assets remain confidential
and protected, 2) information systems are available
and operational, and 3) people are empowered and
productive with the apps and information they need.
IAM is a technology and security discipline
that has

Over the last decade we have seen the dramatic increase in adoption of Mobile as an engagement channel for consumers and employees within the enterprise. What we are seeing now is the emergence of messaging through channels like FB Messenger,
WhatsApp, WeChat, Slack, SMS, as a dominant engagement channel. Over 4.1 Billion users around the world are on instant messaging apps, adopted a rate that was much faster than on social networks. What makes these channels the default choice is the expected instant response if the other person is on or the push notification that triggers the person on the other side to respond immediately. These users that use instant messaging channels to converse with their friends and family want to use the same
familiar user experience and channel to instantly communicate with the enterprise. These channels are doing to apps what browsers did to client server apps i.e. these channels are rapidly becoming the next browser. This is leading to the innovations in
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Cloud Connectivity and Security for Every Branch With each new branch and remote employee, your distributed networks become more complex, and your organization’s digital transformation continues moving full speed ahead. Traditional networking and security infrastructures often buckle under the pressure.
In this ebook, Guide to Cloud Connectivity and Security in Distributed Networks, we’ll share a better approach. Integrating connectivity and security, and moving them to the cloud, can help you achieve higher productivity, reduce cost, and ease compliance.
Specific topics include:
Ways to augment or replace expensive MPLS for more powerful connectivity
Types of security every internet-connected site needs for holistic protection
Advantages of an integrated solution over a patchwork of point products
Read our ebook for more on how to connect and protect across your distributed networks.

An imperative for many enterprises is to undergo a digital transformation to develop new business models, engage better with customers and employees, and remain competitive. Underpinning this transformation is the use of cloud services, which support the rapid innovation and responsiveness required in the digital age.
Unfortunately, current enterprise networks tasked with delivering these innovative services are complex, rigid, costly, and were not built for the speed and flexibility needed in the cloud and digital era. As a result, many organizations are challenging the status quo of traditional networking by taking a software-defined approach.
Watch this webinar featuring research from Forrester to discover:
* Trends that are compelling 90% of organizations to evolve their networks
* Why SD-WAN is a critical enabler of digital transformation
* Key capabilities companies look for in an SD-WAN solution

Creating social networks helps motivate employees to participate in your health and wellness programs. And the more employees engage with your programs, the greater the impact. Download this new report to discover how social networks can improve engagement and get people on track toward improving their health together.

By definition employee advocacy is the promotion
of a company’s messages by its employees. Today,
employee advocacy happens increasingly online,
social media being the main medium for brand
ambassadors. Employees have extensive networks of
friends, followers, and connections on social media,
and nowadays they can be reached and influenced
with a click of a button. When empowered to act as
brand ambassadors on social media, employees can
share valuable content to their networks and build their
professional brand all while increasing the company’s
reach and credibility by generating meaningful
conversations about the business.

Knowledge and strategic relationships fuel many organizations in today’s rapidly changing, global economy. As such, organizations need to leverage the individuals—and their networks—that possess the most relevant knowledge, whether they are current employees or are only loosely connected to the organization. To do this, organizations should create and leverage peer collaboration networks that enable them to identify and connect with individuals who have the unique skills, knowledge, and capabilities these organizations need. Bersin’s Research, Why Reputations and Networks Matter in the Open Talent Economy, indicates that this approach works in driving value—organizations that have effectively used internal reputation networks and profile databases have been able to increase key metrics such as employees’ time to productivity and innovation levels.

Knowledge and strategic relationships fuel many organizations in today’s rapidly changing, global economy. As such, organizations need to leverage the individuals—and their networks—that possess the most relevant knowledge, whether they are current employees or are only loosely connected to the organization. To do this, organizations should create and leverage peer collaboration networks that enable them to identify and connect with individuals who have the unique skills, knowledge, and capabilities these organizations need.

How can human resources partner with IT to drive communication and knowledge-sharing while supporting business objectives? In today’s distributed workforce HR can embrace social business, taking the lead in defining new HR practices to support the changing workplace landscape and foster innovation and integrated employee networks.

A leading U.S.-based financial services firm was faced with the growing challenge of providing consistent application performance to a vast employee base and nationwide network of partners. The company turned to Equinix to help redesign its network, both to
improve performance and prepare for a move to a cloud-enabled environment. Equinix worked with the firm to deploy bi-coastal Equinix Performance Hubs, extension nodes of the company’s existing network placed in strategically located Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers. A Performance Hub moves services closer to end users and provides direct access to networks and cloud providers. By deploying
Performance Hubs, the customer created a high-performance services platform for its business. The result was a dramatic decrease in network latency, improvements in application performance and an enhanced user experience.

The networks that support this free-moving, agile world need the same kind of distributed intelligence. Revolutionary distributed control places intelligence in the access point, allowing automatic optimization of coverage and bandwidth.
With contractors on site, and employees using their own devices, future-ready networks must support all kinds of devices, including legacy equipment. Airtime fair access provides optimal connectivity, even for older devices.

Over the last three years, social networks have experienced exponential growth. Employee networks have grown accordingly, offering access to structured career data through sites like LinkedIn in particular, and unstructured data through networks like Facebook. Employees are continually adding new contacts and growing personal networks. Job posting tools that share jobs into social networks are often described as social referral tools, though this is an inaccurate and misleading description. The more sophisticated of these tools create unique links for sharing that enable employers to identify which of their employees originated the share. This is useful for recognition and reward, whilst the practice of sharing jobs in the wider network is to be encouraged in order to reach job seekers who are browsing or using search engines to identify opportunities. Job seekers are increasingly connecting with their peers in organizations they want to work for. Encouraging employees to share jobs in

A transformation is taking place in how people interact and how relationships form and develop and this is changing the way we socialise, the way we work and the way we engage with our customers. The new normal is that customers are leading the conversations that define your brand, competitors are crowd-sourcing ideas to bring new offerings to market and employees are using social media in all facets of their lives, including work.
This shift in technology and human behaviour presents an opportunity for organisations to improve everything from reinventing customer relationships to how work gets done. A Social Business embraces networks of people to create business value and activates networks of people that apply relevant content and expertise to improve and accelerate core and ad hoc processes, delivering unprecedented return for the time invested.